Tuesday, 22 December 2015

The year 2015 is nearly over - it was a pleasure for us to work together with all the different teams of different country. We all wish you a very merry Christmas, stay healthy and have a happy new year! Year 1 is sinning for you in English and German.

This week
our children in year two made in groups their own Christmas Stories with Lego
or Playmobil. After they used the Lego Movie App (it´s for free) on our new
Ipads and made lots of photos to get a movie. They had a lot of fun and they
were very creative. On the laptops they wrote their stories. At the end we
chose music and the kids read the stories. Now they want to use these movies as a Christmas present.

On the 8th of December 1955 the European flag was created. There are 12 golden stars in a big circle on blue ground. No matter how many member countries- there are 12 stars like the numbers on the clock.
Next to our Christmas tree we show this flag and all six trees and flags inbetween.
Up to the 22nd of December all six schools created a Christmas tree in their schools. After we've changed some ideas of decoration stuff the teacher and pupils were working hard for the tree. In Germany we've got a new schools label from the National agency for our Erasmus+ project. We've put it as a Christmas present at the schools door and as a photograph in the middle of the European flag.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our friends!

Monday, 21 December 2015

It is an old tradition in Germany to bake some Christmas cookies with the children before Christmas. Espacially for our children with special needs, it is necessary to do some practical things like this. It was a lot of fun and after that really delicous.

Sunday, 20 December 2015

In year 1 we are working on addition and substraction till 10. The kids love to work with the new "MoreToMath"-material.
At the beginning they should build a snake out of 8 nubs and write down the addition task. Later we collected all possibilities and compared it. After that, they did the same with a snake out of 10 nubs and then snakes only using green bricks.

At the end they could built their own snakes and wrote down the addition task. It was amazing to see how motivated they wrote a lot of tasks and checked it independently by counting the nubs.

A couple of
weeks ago I told my Year 5 students to create their own Advent calendar for our
German class. They were free to choose everything: design, theme, technique,
etc. The only condition was to include words in German behind every little
paper flap. This way they could do revision on the vocab they had already learned
and prepare themselves for an exam we were going to have. The activity was
great fun, especially when they had to decorate a wall with their artwork.

This short
video shows how busy they were decorating the walls.

This second
video is a presentation of all the fantastic and unique calendars they created.
I was absolutely thrilled to see how creative they are! I hope you like it!